Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The drive back to Silver Moon Harbor felt like racing through a nightmare where the road kept stretching longer with each mile, no

matter how hard I pressed the accelerator. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles had gone white, and I could taste copper in my mouth from where I’d bitten my lip hard enough to draw blood.

My phone had gone completely black after that final call with Ophelia, the screen cracked and unresponsive no matter how frantically I

pressed the power button. Now it was nothing but a useless piece of plastic and metal, cutting me off from any updates about Adrian’s

situation.

“Please,” I whispered to any god who might be listening, pressing the dead phone against my chest like a talisman. “Please let him be safe.

I’ll do anything. Just let my baby be okay.”

The moment I reached the school parking lot, I was out of the car and running toward the building on legs that felt like jelly. My high

heels clicked frantically against the asphalt as I raced toward the main entrance, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I thought

it might burst.

The front doors were locked-of course they were locked, school had ended hours ago. I pounded on the glass with both fists, not caring

that I probably looked like a madwoman, until a janitor finally appeared from somewhere in the depths of the building.

“Ma’am, school’s been closed for-”

“My son!” I gasped, pressing my face against the glass. “Someone took my son! I need to speak with his teacher, with anyone who was

here, please!”

The janitor’s expression softened as he took in my obvious distress. He unlocked the door and stepped aside to let me in. “What’s your boy’s name? I can try calling Mrs. Henderson at home.”

“Adrian Knight,” I said, my voice breaking on his name. “He’s in Mrs. Henderson’s class. Someone picked him up who wasn’t supposed to.”

Mrs. Henderson arrived within twenty minutes. She found me sitting in the hallway outside her classroom, my head in my hands as I

to keep breathing through the panic attacks that kept washing

dear,

at her through eyes that felt swollen from crying.

pale. “The woman said she was his aunt. She had identification-her last name was Knight, same as

at work and had asked her

did she look like?” I managed to ask, though

you and Adrian…” Mrs. Henderson trailed off, guilt flooding her features as understanding dawned.

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with guilt written across her kind face. “I need to borrow

badly I could barely manage to remove my SIM card from the

Henderson’s phone.

the phone connected to the network, I dialed Valerie’s number

each tone echoing in the empty hallway like a

on

I didn’t bother with greetings or pleasantries. “Valerie, I swear to

voice bubbled through the speaker with sickening cheerfulness, like she was

instead of committing kidnapping. “My, my, you sound upset.

word came

Her laugh was light and musical. “I really

desk to keep from collapsing as the implications of her words hit me like physical blows.

four years old! Where did

to get hysterical,” Valerie said. “I’m sure he’ll turn up eventually. Children usually do, don’t they? Well,

anyway.”

I whispered, my voice carrying every ounce of maternal fury I possessed. “I will tear your throat

you bleed to death if anything happens to

motherhood hasn’t improved your temper at all.” Valerie’s

where I left the little darling. For

want?” The words tasted like

even willing to raise that little bastard as his

my voice growing stronger with each word. “I’m not marrying anyone,

show up at the Knight house within two hours, ready to apologize

say little Adrian might have a very